FOR MEMBERS OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CC RCP(b)

To Comrade Molotov for circulation among members of the Politburo

Krestinsky writes to me that Gorky has left Riga completely without money and is basing his prospects on receiving from Stomonyakov an author's honorarium for the publication of his books.

Krestinsky believes it is necessary to include Gorky in the number of comrades receiving treatment abroad at the expense of the Party or the Soviet. I propose

* The reference is to V. I. Lenin's article "On the Theses Concerning the Agrarian Question of the French Communist Party" (see Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 44, pp. 274-281). Ed.